Muromachi

Sagara Shrine Main Hall in Kizugawa is a three-bay nagare sanctuary of the early Muromachi era, mixing Japanese, Chinese and Great Buddha details. Designated 1911.

A three-bay nagare-style sanctuary of 1494 at Saguri Shrine in Kumiyama, Kyoto, with carvings of birds, deer and squirrels among grapes, and colour renewed in 1981.

The octagonal, vermilion Sanshōji Aizen-dō rises beyond the Tsūten-kyō at Kyoto's Tōfuku-ji. This rare early-Muromachi hall enshrines the love-deity Aizen Myō-ō.

The personal chapel of Ashikaga Yoshimasa at Ginkakuji, Kyoto, built in 1486 and a National Treasure since 1951, with the four-and-a-half-mat Dojinsai study.

Built in 1502, this three-bay hall is Fukuchiyama's oldest building. An ink inscription dated it, while excavation found pits where fires burned beneath its gods.

The main hall of Juhachi Shrine in Uji, Kyoto, built in 1487, is a three-bay nagare-style hall roofed in wood shingles, designated with its ridge tags.

Built in 1406, the main hall of Shindō-ji in southern Kyoto is an Important Cultural Property and the heart of a Shugendō mountain temple, housing a 2.7-meter Zaō Gongen image carved in the Muromachi period.

Zuihō-in's gate at Daitoku-ji, raised 1536-1555 for Christian daimyo Ōtomo Sōrin's Zen temple. A rare late-Muromachi munemon with original cypress-bark roof.

The main hall of Zuihō-in, a sub-temple of Kyoto's Daitoku-ji, was built between 1536 and 1555 by the Christian daimyō Ōtomo Sōrin's order. Designated an Important Cultural Property in 1962, it is one of the finest surviving examples of late-Muromachi hōjō architecture in Kyoto.

One of a pair of seamless stone stupas, or muhōtō, standing north of the Founder's Hall at Sennyū-ji. Both date to the early Muromachi period and were designated in 1955.

The worship hall of the Seiryugu shrine in upper Daigoji, Kyoto, raised in 1434 and a National Treasure since 1954, built out over a steep slope.

The main hall of the Seiryugu shrine in lower Daigoji, Kyoto, rebuilt in 1517 and an Important Cultural Property since 1954, home of the temple's guardian deity.

The 1513 abbot's hall of Daisenin at Daitokuji, Kyoto, a National Treasure since 1957, a typical six-room Zen hall and a rare medieval survival.

The Seishido hall of Chion-in, Kyoto, rebuilt in 1530 on the site of Honen's hermitage and an Important Cultural Property since 1899, the temple's oldest building.

Cut with a date corresponding to 1334, this granite stone pagoda gives scholars a fixed point for dating medieval stonework in Japan. Its temple stays closed.

The main hall of the Tenmangu shrine in Wazuka, Kyoto Prefecture, built in 1348, is a small one-bay nagare-style hall roofed in cypress bark, from the 14th century.

Gekkamon, a four-legged gate roofed in cypress bark and listed in 1902, stands closed on the northern approach at Tofukuji in Kyoto, free to view from outside.

Nio Gate of 1350 at Bujoji in Hanase, Kyoto: an eight-pillared gate with a hip-and-gable shingle roof, where the mountain path to the main hall begins.

Main hall and water pavilion of around 1345 to 1349 at Bujoji in Hanase, Kyoto: a hall built out over a cliff, called the oldest stage-style building in Japan.

The Yakushido of Hokaiji in Hino, Kyoto, is a hipped-roof hall of 1456 moved from Nara in 1904, where the Healing Buddha is worshipped for safe childbirth.